Note 697 — Chapter IV · THE MAGISTRACY
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See the section dealing with the powers of the people. The vitium effected the elections even of tribunes of the Plebs—but purely as a result of auspicia oblativa. See Liv. x. 47 (293 B.C.) “exacto jam anno novi tribuni plebis magistratum inierant: hisque ipsis, quia vitio creati erant, quinque post dies alii subfecti.”